Lowers cost of service delivery through automation and reduced skill requirements

Deploys IT services faster to meet the increased need for development, test, preproduction and production systems

Delivers a higher degree of standardization and automation for deployment and management of IT services while reserving skilled IT staff members’ time for other high-value tasks

Provides traceable processes and approval routings to serve as audit trails, and integrates with process governance

Offers an integrated management capability that addresses the lifecycle changes of a cloud service

Provides adaptable and automated best practices for building and managing IT infrastructures

A structure built upon Tivoli's service management platform, leveraging existing investments in service management capabilities

Integrates with IBM WebSphere® CloudBurst to speed the delivery of WebSphere-based services

Operating systems supported: Linux

Two New extensions for TSAM 7.2.2 offer Cloud Cost Management and StaaS (Storage as a Service) life cycle management capabilities

Download extensions for free in the IBM Service Management Library.

NetApp Storage Extension
NetApp Storage Extension provides service offerings to provision and manage the entire life cycle (StaaS - Storage as a Service) of shared storage accessible through NAS protocols from virtual machines provisioned within a TSAM Project with VMWare Servers. With this extension

- Provision and manage shared storage Network Attached Storage (NAS).

- Use and manage file systems with VMWare virtual machines once the shared storage is provisioned.